SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market

Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by jacques_chester on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:07AM (#2270766)

I think I'll wait for someone like Jon Stokes to talk about SeaMicro before getting too excited about how 64-bit processors mean you can address 4Gb of RAM.

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by justincormack on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:58AM (#2270859)

Yeah especially as the Atom N550 which has been out for a while has 64 bit support.

Any article that calls a cpu a brain has no place on hacker news.

Only seems to be 2Gb RAM support too, single channel, non ECC. And Atom is very slow...

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by peterb on Monday February 28, 2011 @09:09AM (#2271222)

CPU speed doesn't concern me, as memory access/front-side bus tends to be the bottleneck in the applications I'm interested in. But non-EEC is a problem. Intel intentionally crippled Atom to not cannibalize its server business. I think a similar platform but with Arm Cortex-A15 would be even more interesting.

RAM is the new disk.

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by reeses on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:03AM (#2274605)

And the new disk is RAM. Whoa, you just baked my brain.

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by lsb on Monday February 28, 2011 @08:43AM (#2271143)

I think it may have been Google that found that random RAM errors are quite likely over the course of a year, so you really want ECC memory if you're running a server and need uptime.

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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market by reeses on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:02AM (#2274602)

I found a (the?) paper on the topic: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

I was going to ask you for a citation but realized that would be lazy when I could google[1] it myself. I've had a couple arguments with a hosting provider all but ignoring RAM errors, with them responding,"I rebooted and watched it for a few days, and it seems to have cured the issue."

[1] Do you ever think "bing it" will catch on? I think I've discovered their growth constraint factor.

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